December Tracking Club: Winter WanderingsCome join us for our next Tracking Excursion at Ft. Snelling State Park: Sunday, December 16 9:00am - 1:00pm We will gather at the Ft. Snelling State Park visitor ...
Posted Dec 6, 2018, 7:55 AM by Jonathan Poppele

New! Trailing Practice: Sat, Dec 15Welcome to Trailing Practice. In October, several tracking club members participated in a Deer Trailing workshop and evaluation with Kersey Lawrence, a Senior Tracker from South Africa. We will be ...
Posted Dec 4, 2018, 2:33 PM by Jonathan Poppele

Tracking Club

Minnesota Tracking Club is a social group for anyone interested in the art of wildlife tracking. The group meets monthly, usually at Ft. Snelling State Park and occasionally at other
locations in and around the Twin Cities metro area. Monthly meetings are facilitated by certified wildlife trackers with many years of experience in track and sign identification.Tracking
club excursions are open to everyone. For a
schedule of upcoming club meetings, click on the Events tab, or click here to follow the clubs Facebook group

Interpreting Bird Language is an art form. The calls,
postures, and other behaviors of birds convey much information to those
who understand their patterns. The attentive, trained observer can
deduce through bird language the location of predators and other forces
on the landscape.

Bird Language Leaders is a program designed to
empower conservationists worldwide through bird language mentoring
partnerships. The program was developed by Jon Young over his two
decades of experience mentoring naturalists in the art of interpreting
bird language. Jonathan Poppele is collaborating with Jon Young to
introduce the Bird Language Leaders program to Minnesota.

We
host a monthly a Bird Language club and offer mentoring and resources
for people interested in becoming group facilitators through the Bird
Language Leaders program.

The Minnesota Wildlife Tracking Project partners with research and
conservation organizations throughout the state to conduct wildlife
tracking surveys. The lead trackers on our survey are certified in Track & Sign Identification through trackercertification.com, and have decades of experience in wildlife tracking and wildlife research.

Each
of our projects also includes a strong Citizen Science component. We
support interested naturalists in learning track and sign
identification, and provide opportunities to participate in wildlife
surveys, and to pursue certification in Track & Sign Identification.
Many of our survey observations are available on iNaturalist.org